Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - I ppt

... as the bridesmaid, and the bride's brother will serve as the best man. The bride is brought by her relatives and the groom's party to the groom's house on the wedding day. In the house or within a temporary shelter (pandal) erected near the house, the groom in the most pertinent act of the marriage ceremony and in conformity with the widespread practice in southern India, tie...

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... elders is stressed. Sociopolitical Organization Social Organization. Chakma society is hierarchically or- ganized on the basis of age, sex, occupation, power, religion, wealth, and education. An older person is invariably re- spected by a younger person. The husband is more powerful than the wife in the family; and a man is afforded more status outside the family. Power is unequally distrib...

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... care for jhum fields and girls are taught how to weave. Magicoreligious rites are, for the most part, mastered by means of observation. The sole exception to this norm is the Khazangpina chant (which ac- Limbu 149 or Nepali dishes. Rice is the most popular staple of the Lepcha diet; wheat, maize, and buckwheat are also eaten but are not nearly as popular. Millet is grown for fermenting as...

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... a new arena for verbal conflict. Toda 295 tongue. Literate Toda mostly write in Tamil; a few use English. History and Cultural Relations Despite much amateurish speculation about Toda origins in Greece, Rome, the Danube Basin, ancient Israel, Sumeria, and other unlikely places, the linguistic evidence points clearly to the people's South Indian roots. But because Toda emerged from the...

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... Kerala, and western Tamil Nadu. There is also a cultivating caste named Kadar in southern districts of West Bengal. Total: 1,926 in 1971. (Thurston and Rangachari 1909, 3: 6-2 9; Ananthakrishna Iyer 190 9-1 912, 1: 1-2 7; Ehrenfels 1952; Sarkar 1959; Luiz 1962, 5 9-6 4; Thundy 1983) Kader A tribe found in Kozhikode and Cannanore dis- tricts, in northern Kerala. They cultivate pepper...

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... Contents Project Staff vi Contributors vii Preface xiii Introduction xix Maps 1. South Asia xxviii 2. Cultural Regions of South Asia xxix 3. Major Languages of South Asia xxx 4. Dominant Religious Groups of South Asia xxxi 5. Cultural Groups of South Asia xxxii Cultures of South Asia 1 Appendix: Additional Castes, Caste Clusters, and Tribes 309 Bibliograph...

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... Thus, "Abor" suggests one who does not submit allegiance (i. e., one who is hostile, barbarous, or savage). The alternative view connects the word with Abo, the primordial man in Abor mythology. The final -r is taken to be similar to final -rr in tribal designations such as Aorr, Simirr, and Yim- chungrr, which means "man." In the 1960s, the Abor began calling themselves...

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... of less than half a hect- are. No significant land reform has been attempted in Bangladesh in the past forty years. Two decades ago, only 20 percent of the landholdings in West Bengal accounted for some 60 percent of the total cultivated area, and a large num- ber of cultivating families were landless laborers, tenants, and sharecroppers as well; since then West Bengal has made a sig-...

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... 78 Divehi dress, have claimed that unlike the other Divehis they had no divorce or widow remarriage, and have said their ancestors were Tamils, though they have no knowledge of such people and have never traveled outside their atoll. They have also claimed to be strictly endogamous. Other Divehis tradition- ally have thought of the Girivaru as dirty, while they have thought of other Div...

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... the Gujarati population are tribals who predominantly live in the eastern hilly belt. Sixty-nine percent of the population live in rural areas and 31 percent live in urban areas. Ahmadabad, Surat, Vadodara, and Rajkot are large cities. linguistic Affiliation. Gujarati is considered by linguists to be a member of the outer circle of Indo-Aryan languages: it is partly Prakritic and partly...

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